May 2012
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“I think I’m quite unusual. I’m a Muslim woman and I get attacked in...”
– Anonymous, Victoria Street
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April 2012
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“The difference between burlesque and striptease is like that between karate and...”
– Laughing with a stranger at a bus stop
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“So, this is like therapy for you?”
– A clever man at house party challenges the idea that I find all of the participants attractive.
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March 2012
3 posts
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“No way would anybody strip in public. We’re too selfish, people are...”
– Anonymous. I’ve been told
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February 2012
1 post
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January 2012
2 posts
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Jen, after.
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December 2011
10 posts
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“Manchester is a Disneyland for drugs.”
– Shaun Ryder in Manchester, England - The Story of the Pop Cult City by Dave Haslam
“It’s porn. What else is it when you show a woman naked pictures in the...”
– Stranger, Oxford Road. Well, that didn’t work out too good, did it?
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“We therefore concluded that the ads… would also be seen as degrading to...”
– Banned by the Advertising Standards Authority.
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Jen, before.
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November 2011
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“Not only is what you suggest immoral, you are taking things to a whole new level...”
– Whoops. My lewd proposal goes down like a bag of spanners with a Christian maths teacher
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October 2011
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Mancs.
We’ve got a reputation. I’m swiftly developing a reputation of my own, but that’s another story. I began this journey for the craic, but the doing it makes you different. Capturing the city and it’s dwellers on film makes you a historian whether you’re partial to long yarns about Norman conquests or not. The city’s smashed together mish-mash architecture asks...
“At first, I thought you were a regular pervert…”
– Nope. I’m a special kind of pervert
September 2011
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August 2011
9 posts
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“I might, but I don’t know. You remind me a bit too much of Ben Dover on...”
– Who knew? A woman tells me why she won’t take her clothes off for me on the streets of Manchester. Fair enough, I suppose. There’s a bit of a theme developing…
Before & After (Part 1)
I always take the first photograph on my iPhone; the second on my Polaroid. The camera-phone is small and innocuous and familiar - we all have one, so they don’t feel “threatening” in the way that those big beast-like, professional SLR rigs do.
I have heard - more than once - about how I must have “photoshopped” the faces on afterwards from some picture I ripped from...
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“Are they on drugs?”
– …asked one woman I stopped. Everyone who strips in public for the project is frightfully rational and very, very English
“What you’re really doing is having a one-night stand.”
– Perceptive words from a friend on undressing a stranger for the camera in a public place. It’s the eye-contact, flirting and hook-up, but on super fast-forward. Without the guilty, awkward moment afterwards. What do you mean you “don’t feel guilty..?”
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Chuggers Are The Enemy
Charity muggers. Vermin. I get that dread-feeling in my gut every time I see one. They are watching us, the stealthy bastards, as we The Great British Public go about our unsuspecting business in sour times. I swear they have developed that thousand yard stare, so numbed are they to all true feeling. There’s the grotesque gurning, as they leap around with “enthusiasm”,...
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July 2011
3 posts
“Look: that’s Paris, okay? It’s the kind of thing the French do. They...”
– Reasons why, I am told, The Naughty Index can’t work in Manchester. You know, we’re too… English.
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